Charles writing his life story, RESTly (8)

My third big life transition—immigrating to Canada--took place in 1983. I arrived at Canada with a 'single' status, where no job offers nor relatives were awaiting me. Thinking that after spending three years of rest and freedom, I could return to Hong Kong again, I chose to land at my favorite city, Vancouver.

After landing, I started almost immediately to look for jobs relevant to my background. Many failures later, I gradually reduced my aspiration, and rather unwillingly, started something brand new-- being a life insurance agent. For 9 months I had lived in this city with frustration and loneliness feeling defeated, lost and aimless. But then, I met God again—some Christians came to make friends with me and soon I joined their church life. There, I found new love, peace and joy.

Good luck came. Through a Christian brother’s introduction, I got a job offer from a company located in Ottawa that required both my technical and management backgrounds. The job offer was a good one considering my situation then, which also included transporting my belongings and car; the pay was good enough for me to start a house mortgage in Ottawa. At that time, I thought, "I can feel sunshine again!"